BOOK REVIEW - We Are All Liars - Carys Jones

                                                                     BOOK SYNOPSIS

We're best friends.
We trust each other.
But...
We are all liars.

Allie, Stacie, Diana, Emily and Gail have been by each other's sides for as long as they can remember. The Fierce Five. Best friends forever. But growing up has meant growing apart. And little white lies have grown into devastating secrets.

When Gail invites the increasingly estranged friends to reunite at her Scottish cabin, it could be the opportunity to mend old wounds and heal the cracks in their friendship. But when a freak snowstorm rocks the cabin and one of the girls is found dead on the ice, their weekend away becomes a race against time - and each other - to get off the mountain alive.

And in the end, whose story can you trust, when everything was founded on lies to begin with?

A vast majority of this breath taking, intense tale of toxic friendships, betrayals, secrets, survival and deception is narrated from the perspective of Allie who along with Diana, Stacie, Emily and Gail had been known as the Fierce Five since their school days. The reader is made aware from the minute that Allie is first introduced into the story that she has reservations about attending the friend's reunion at Gail's isolated cabin that was situated in the Scottish Highlands. As the story which is set in the present day and the past unfolds it becomes apparent that the friendships between some of the women were not as close as people outside the group believed them to be.

As the temperature plummeted on both the inside and outside of the cabin, the women found themselves cut off from civilisation with no means of summoning help. But how and why had the reunion gone so badly and tragically wrong? Who was the unnamed person of interest who was being questioned by Officer Fields in chapters that were scattered throughout the story? It was obvious that the mysterious individual was one of the five friends but the author keeps the reader guessing by keeping that character's identity a secret until towards the end of the story.

The author added dimension to her realistic group of females by including chapters that were written in italics and took the reader back into the women's pasts. During these parts of the story we were given insights into events, interactions and relationships with other individuals who had played some part in the friend's lives both individually or whilst they were together as a group. We all have our own unique personal histories, events that have contributed to our characters and behaviour as adults, memories that we either want to remember or lock away in a tiny box and lose the key forever. The question was, was there any connection between events in the present day and the past? 

The younger and older versions of each woman had their own unique personalities and character traits. I could easily empathise with Allie's feelings of being a outsider during some of her interactions with the other members of the Fierce Five but I can't say that I thought she was a very likeable individual as a adult. I thought that she really needed to remove the rose tinted glasses that she insisted on wearing and open her eyes to the truths hiding within certain situations.

Wow....just wow, I loved this intense, atmospheric thriller that hooks the reader in from the first page, keeps you captivated and hardly gives you a opportunity to draw in a breath at times as the story winds its way towards its unexpected,very ingenious, jaw dropping conclusion. I love books that are based in isolated locations especially where the characters are cut off from civilisation and have no way of summoning help. I really really enjoyed this extremely well written,cleverly plotted story and if possible would give it far more than five stars. Very very highly recommended by little old me.

                                                                      AUTHOR INFO

Carys Jones is a thriller writer based in Shropshire where she lives with her husband, daughter and dog.
When she’s not writing she can often be found indulging two of her greatest passions; either walking round the local woodland or catching up on all things Disney related.
Her favourite authors are Virginia Andrews, Ruth Ware and Jodi Picoult.
Carys is represented by Emily Glenister of DHH Literary Agency. The List is out now with Orion books and her next book, We Are All Liars will be released September 30th 2021
For more information about Carys please visit www.carys-jones.com or follow her on Twitter; @CarysJAuthor

PUBLICATION DATE: 30th September 2021

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